TRP channels and the regulation of vascular permeability: new insights from the lung microvasculature.
TRP channels and the regulation of vascular permeability: new insights from the lung microvasculature.
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TRP 通道和血管通透性调节:来自肺微脉管系统的新见解。
DOI:
10.1161/01.res.0000249618.51440.c6
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发表时间:
2006
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20.1
通讯作者:
Glass,CatherineA
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Curry,Fitz-RoyE;Glass,CatherineA
One of the most widely recognized mechanisms to initiate an inflammatory response is calcium entry into endothelial cells. 1–3 Recent investigations have demonstrated that there are multiple mechanisms which determine calcium flux into endothelial cells (including ligand gated calcium channels, store operated calcium channels and mechanosensitive channels), and that these different mechanisms are preferentially distributed between different endothelial cells. The functional consequences of these observations for regulation of vascular tone and remodeling are beginning to be understood4, 5 but this is not the case for the regulation of endothelial barrier function in intact organs. In this issue Alvarez et al describe an important example of segmental vascular permeability regulation in lung. 6 They demonstrate that activation of the vanilloid subset of the family of calcium channels known as transient receptor potential channels (in this case the TRPV4 channels) preferentially increased the permeability of the endothelial and epithelial layers of the primary gas exchanging septal regions of the lung microvasculature whereas other calcium channels, such as the store operated calcium channels, increased permeability outside the primary gas exchange regions (so called extra-alveolar regions). These are important observations because disruption of the endothelium at the septal barrier is more likely to cause alveolar flooding and impair gas exchange than disruption in extraalveolar vessels. So far at least 28 mammalian TRP isoforms have been discovered. TRP channels have been subdivided into 3 main classes, TRPC (canonical), TRPM (melastatin), and TRPV (vanilloid) although more recently other classes have also been proposed (TRPP [polycystin], TRPML [mucolipin], and TRPA [ankyrin]). 4, 7 A general feature of the channels is that they pass only very small currents (calcium ion flux) and act as passive conductance pathways for calcium entry, ie, they are not voltage gated. Thus the calcium flux depends on the local density of channel expression and the electrochemical driving force driving calcium into the cell. In particular hyperpolarization of the endothelial cell membrane potentiates calcium entry by increasing the electrical driving force for positively charged ions such as calcium. For example, when TRP channels are activated close to calcium regulated potassium channels, they may also hyperpolarize the membrane and amplify calcium influx through all open calcium channels. As described in recent reviews, TRP channels have many functions in the vasculature4 including the regulation of vascular tone (TRPC4, TRPV1, TRPV4), angiogenesis (TRPM6 and TRPM7), vascular remodeling (TRPC4), oxidative stress-induced responses (TRPC3, TRPC4, TRPM2) and mechanosensing (TRPV4). TRP channels have also been implicated in the regulation of vascular permeability including TRPC1, TRPC4, TRPC6, and TRPV1. 4 With relatively few specific antagonists for the TRP channels available at this time, it can be difficult to identify which TRP channel is involved in a given signaling event. Alvarez et al have used several strategies to distinguish the TRP channels in their lung preparation. As discussed below there are limitations to the confidence that can be placed in any one of these strategies, but a strength of the present article is that it focuses attention of several converging themes that are important for further investigations of calcium dependent regulation of fluid accumulation in the lung. The strategies used by Alvarez et al include immunohistochemical localization of TRPV4 expression, light and electron microscopy of localized breaks …